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videotapeswapshop. (aka VTSS.) is our pleasantly unhinged tribute to the peculiar world of genre film. We're equally interested in both the ridiculous and the sublime efforts that have emerged from the depths of the genre pool, and in particular, those between the late 1950's and early 90s...
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The Brain Eaters – 1958 / Director: Bruno VeSota
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Rolling Thunder – 1977 / Director: John Flynn
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The Incredible Melting Man – 1977 / Director: William Sachs
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Panic in Year Zero! – 1962 / Director: Ray Milland
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Frogs – 1972 / Director: George McCowan
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A Bay of Blood – 1971 / Director: Mario Bava
A Bay of Blood came near the end of Mario Bava’s career, an Italian director of highly stylized horror, comedy, action movies, and most significantly, several gialli, whose work is…
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Spirits of the Dead – 1968 / Directors: Roger Vadim, Federico Fellini, Louis Malle
A trilogy of short supernatural films conceived around the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Spirits of the Dead, or, in its original French incarnation, Histoires Extraordinaires, was helmed by three…
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Inferno – 1980 /Director: Dario Argento
Inferno is probably director Dario Argento‘s most underrated feature film. It might even be his most technically accomplished, alongside Suspiria and (arguably) Opera, all three films showcase the director at…
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Deep Red – 1975 / Director: Dario Argento
Deep Red is known as one of, if not the, textbook giallo. Conceived, co-written and directed by gialli maestro Dario Argento, Deep Red was shot after his thoroughly unsuccessful attempt…
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Tenebrae – 1982 / Director: Dario Argento
Ah, my favourite Dario Argento film. This title means “darkness”, yet the film itself is one of the most brightly-lit films Argento has shot, up until he did The Card…
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Martin – 1977 / Director: George A. Romero
Martin is not only one of my favourite vampire films, it is one of my two favourite George Romero films, and one of my top-five favourite films, period. This is…
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Savage Streets – 1984 / Director: Danny Steinhamm
Linda Blair is fucking awesome. I’d never seen Savage Streets before, and perhaps it was this complete and utter lack of expectation that caused me to enjoy it as much…
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Island of Death – 1975 / Director: Nico Mastorakis
Island of Death is a film that has an automatic infamy in the UK because of its “video nasty” label, due to the fact it was banned outright on its…

























































